(2) Is there an Eclipse plug-in for Fitnesse (and if there is, what does it do)?

(3) Any good online tutorials or books? The tutorial that comes bundled with Fitnesse doesn't really explain how to write the intermediary code which binds fixtures (written in Java) with FIT tables (located in the wiki). Would appreciate it if some one could point me to a good URL or book which explains everything.

(4) Is it plausible to use Fitnesse to write user acceptance tests / customer tests for web applications which are connected to a Hibernate ORM based persistence layer?

I'll skip to #4 ... I worked on a system where almost nothing was testable without having the EJB server up and running. I thought about running Fit tests inside there and never got that far. If you have things you can JUnittest outside your server, you can proabably Fit test them, too.

Someone may open the debate of "it isn't x kind of test if it uses the database" but I really don't care as long as it's convenient and fast enough to run often.

All Java testing aside, I wanted to use Fit to specify and test database data. We had a great many rules that were data driven. I trusted the code, but not the data migration. I made a generic fixture that tested "For a given SQL query (of any complexity you like) you should get these results." The folks who really did the work were not sold; they insisted on Use Case Documents and Mercury tests of the UI, both of which were pretty evil.

Best of luck with Fitnesse. I think it's a great way to go! [ March 14, 2007: Message edited by: Stan James ]

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